Sverdlovsk sambo wrestlers have begun preparations for
the main national tournament of the year. That will determine European Sambo
Championship participants
Sverdlovsk sambo wrestlers entered the
final stage of preparation for the Russian National Championship, which will be
held from February 28 to March 1 in Cheboksary. It will determine the future
participants of the World and European Championships. The winners of the main
national tournament will go to Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) in November, and silver
medals will compete in Ekaterinburg in May.
More than 40 athletes from the UMMC
Sambo Club (Verkhnyaya Pyshma) are training now at the sports campus
“Granatovaya Buhta” near Verkhnyaya Sysert, where our team use to prepare for
major competitions. As a tradition, about 20 athletes from neighboring regions
who trust the Ural training system join them.
Valery Stennikov, the head coach of the
main team of the Sverdlovsk region and the Director General of the UMMC Sambo
Club, says that at the first stage of the training camp it is necessary to give
the athletes maximum load. This is achieved by two-hour training sessions: one
in the morning and another one in the evening. During these sessions, wrestlers
conduct seven six-minute sparrings: three bouts in the parter and four bouts in
the position. Wednesday and Saturday – low-load days: morning game training,
during which athletes especially like to play their own invention - a game
which is a mixture of basketball and rugby, and in the evening a mandatory
recovery bath.
In such a tough mode, future
participants of the Russian National Championship will spend 10 days. Then they
will work on individual techniques and weight adjustment. On February 26 the
team will leave for Cheboksary. In total, more than 40 people will represent
the Sverdlovsk Region at the National Championship. These are winners of last
year’s Championship of Russia, winners and prize-winners of the Championship of
the Ural Federal District, as well as winners of departmental competitions. The
most experienced in our team is the 36-year-old six-time World Champion Alsim
Chernoskulov, the youngest is the 20-year-old Yevgeny Eremin, who, despite his
age, has already twice won the silver medal in the Russian National
Championship and won silver and bronze medals in the European Championship.
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